Pad-holder



(No Model.)

B. G. TEBBUTT.-

PAD HOLDER.

Patented Jan. 11, 1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

ELIZABETH G. TEBBUTT, OF ALBANY, NEIV YORK.

PAD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,035, dated January 1 l, 1898.

Application filed February 16 1897. Serial No. 628,728. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH G. TEBBUTT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Saleswomens Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a saleswomans pocket, in which its front, rear, and end walls may at all times be in condition to give a suitable support to sales-books of different dimensions and allow ready access to such a book, whether longer or shorter; to provide with the front side and end walls elements which may adapt them to be relatively contracted or expanded, as maybe advantageous for use with the book to be carried to so combine with the front wall of the pocket elements which together with the said wall, may produce a receptacle or receptacles adaptedto temporarily receive a saleswomans instruments required to be used when attendance to a customer is being given; to provide a measuringtape with a means for suitable support and in readiness for use and with a blank extension which allows the scale portion to be fully carried out from its case for making measurements at different degrees of distances from the saleswoman, and, finally, to provide other elements for effecting other useful results. I attain these ob jects by means of the elements or devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a view from its front side of a saleswomans pocket embodying the improvements in this invention. Fig. 2 is aside view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the side andbottom walls of the same embodying some of the elements in this invention and illustrating the same when opened out flat. Fig. 4 is aplan View of the end walls of the pocket and means for securing them to the front, back, and bottom walls of the same and illustrating a preferred means for securing the same in place. Fig. 5 is a view of the bag from an end thereof with the end wall unconnected. Fig. 6 is a view of the bag havinga modified form of construction, and Fig. '7 is a plan View of the same.

The same letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A is a saleswomans pocket comprising the front side wall A, rear side wal1A bottom B, and lateral or end walls 0 C. These several walls and bottom of this pocket may be made of any suitable mate rial, as canvas, leather, or other suitable substance or of suitable combinations of such materials as may be selected, and these several walls may have given to them such dimensions of portions thereof and also outlines of form as may be preferred to adapt them for the purposes designed, and they may be wholly or in part integral or be of separate pieces secured together by any preferred suitable known means.

The side walls A A embody the upwardlyextended portions a. a, which serve as supports to sales-books from their sides when they are of length exceeding, say, five inches, and also the middle recession a for allowing the fingers and thumb to readily grasp books of short length without being introd uced into the pocket, and at the same time the book is wholly below the upper ends of portions 0:. In some cases I may use-but one upwardlyextended portion a, which when employed may be located at the middle of length of the sides A A for supporting books of longest length, and in such a case I would provide two recessions, each running down, as recession a, one at each side of the middle extension portion, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

The bottom B is preferably made with a length which may adapt the pocket to receive a sales-book of greatest width and with a breadth corresponding to sales-books of greatest thickness, and although this bottom may be made of but a single thickness of material yet the drawings show this bottom to be made with double thickness, as h b, which together form sheath I), adapted to receive the tongue ends 0 of end-wall pieces O 0 when the latter are to be adjustable in character. \Vhen bottom I3 is made with a sheath-like form, its parts are secured to the side walls A AF, preferably by stitchings 5 s, Fig.

The end-wall pieces C may be made with parallel side edges 0 c, as shown by full lines in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, or with one edge thereof on an inclined line, as on dotted line 0, Fig. 4, or with both edges inclined, as dotted lines c 0 same figure, and although they may be secured to the side walls A A by any suitable known means yet I at present prefer to have them detachably secured thereto and preferably so as to be adjustable at-will in relation to said side walls, as might be advantageous when sales-books of varying thickness may be used therewith. Figs. 1 and 2 show lacingstrings D to be my preferred means for securing said end-wall pieces C with the side walls A A to render them detachably secured together and adjustable at will as to the distance at which the latter walls may have their up per ends set apart. lVhen lacing-strings D are employed for securin g said walls together, suitable holes d d, with or without protectingeyelets, may be employed for receiving said strings. When the materials of the side walls A A are of flexible nature and liable to become bent or out of shape from use, I provide in each upwardly-extended portion a a suitable stiffening element, which I at this time prefer to consist of a strip E of tempered steel (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 and illustrated by full and dotted lines in Fig. 3) of suitable length inserted between the outer material and linings of said walls, and I preferably secure these stiffening-strips in place by means of suitable eyelet-form rivets 6. (Shown in the same figures.)

Receptacles F, one or more, are provided with the side wall A and are formed each by a piece, as f, Figs. 1, 2,and 6, so shaped and secured to the material of the side wallA that it and the material of the latter wall may together constitute a suitable sheath form pocket for containing instruments, one or more, required to be used by the saleswoman when attending customers, and such pockets or receptacles F so provided will in all cases be exterior to the pocket A and have the material of the same interposed between the book Within and the instrument without and allow the inner surface of wall A to be evenly plane.

G G are cords or equivalent suspendingpieces connected below with pocket A and above with a suitable suspension device, as g, which latter may be secured to the dress of the wearer of the pocket, or these cords G may be of such length as to hold from the neck of the wearer of the pocket. A second holding device, as 9, preferably in the form of a hook, is shown to be secured to the rear side of wall A Fig. 2, of the pocket and adapted to engage with a belt worn by the pocket wearer or with a loop or eye secured to the dress.

H is a measuring-tape provided with case H and adapted to be coiled within the same,

preferably by means of a coiling-spring. This tape, its case, and means for coiling the former within the latter are so well known that a particular description of those parts is unnecessary.

an extension of material which is blank and constitutes a blank supplement h, operating to so increase the whole length of the tape This tape H has integral with it.

material below the measuring-tape portion H that a ready handling of any degree of length of the measuring portion may be had without confusion and with greater convenience for viewing the measure-marks than may be had when the m easure-marks are continued down to. the case and producing an extension of measuring-scale longer than necessary for making general measurements of customers. The case of this tape H is provided with devices h, one or more, for securing it to the suspension-cord .G, and it may be held by said cord at any desired point above the pocket, as may be found to be most convenient for using the tape. I

I is a pin-holder, preferably of circular form and of diameter corresponding with that of the case II, to the front side of which this pin-holder is secured, and it is adapted to hold pins 1' in place and condition for convenient reach and handling of an attendant when required to use the same whileattending a customer. I

J is a wall-piece, preferably of flexible material and secured to the material of the pinholder, preferably by stitchings, as s, so as toform with. the material of said pin-holder a receptacle j for an instrument required to be in place convenient for easy reach of the wearer when. attending on a customer.

By my above-described improvements there are provided with the pocket elements which contribute to the same new and advantageous functions and results and render it adapted for holding articles and instruments conveniently situated for ready use while the saleswoman is attending a customer.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a saleswomans pocket, the combination with a bottom and end walls, of two side walls having each one or more upwardly-extended book-supporting elements a provided with the stiffening-pieces E and provided with downwardly-extended recessions a, whereby a sales-book may be suitably supported and readily grasped, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a saleswomans pocket, the combination with a bottom piece, end pieces or Walls, and the front side wall of flexible material, of a stiffening element E applied to said side wall and adapted to prevent said flexible material being bent out of shape, from use, sub stantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a saleswomans pocket, the combination with the front and rear side walls, havin g eachone or more upwardly-extended booksupporting elements a and downwardly-extended recessions a, of a stiffening element E applied to the material of each side wall and extending from a point near the bottom of the pocket up to near the upper end of each said book-supporting element, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In a saleswomans pocket, the combina- IIO 10 lacing-receiving devices, of longitudinallyadjustable end walls G provided also at their side edges with lacing-receiving devices and lacing-strings applied to said 1aoing-receiving devices, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. 1

ELIZABETH G. TEBBUTT.

Vitnesses;

TESSIE GRIFFIN, ANNA E. SEIM. 

